MANIFESTO FOR SCOTLAND’S ANIMALS LAUNCHED

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MANIFESTO FOR SCOTLAND’S ANIMALS LAUNCHED

 

 

 

Advocates for Animals, Scotland’s leading animal

protection organisation, has today launched its

Manifesto for Animals directed at candidates seeking

election to the Scottish Parliament in May 2003.

 

The Manifesto, which any party or individual is free

to adopt in whole or in part, sets out a programme of

reform of legislation which the new Scottish Executive

should either enact or seek to promote. It makes a

number of calls, including:

 

 

 

The establishment of an Animal Welfare Minister for

Scotland.

The introduction of an Animal Welfare Bill to

consolidate and to bring up-to-date the legislation

affecting animals in Scotland.

A ban on the use of animals in circuses.

An end to the tail-docking of dogs for cosmetic

purposes.

A ban on the use of both airguns and crossbows in

public.

A ban on the use of all snares to trap animals.

An end to the factory farming of broiler chickens,

turkeys, ducks and other birds.

A ban on the keeping of egg-laying hens in battery

cages.

A ban on the keeping of pigs in farrowing crates.

An end to live animal exports from Scotland for

slaughter or further fattening.

An end to the slaughter of animals without

pre-stunning.

 

 

A copy of the Manifesto has been sent to all political

parties and candidates.

 

 

 

Les Ward, Director of Advocates for Animals, said:

 

“Scotland has already taken the lead on an issue that

Westminster has failed to resolve for decades, that of

ending the brutal and barbaric practice of using dogs

to chase, attack and kill wild mammals. The next

Parliament needs to continue with more detailed work.

The welfare of animals is important to the majority of

people in Scotland. We believe the Manifesto

represents much of what the Scottish public would like

to see and is achievable with the will and the

commitment of politicians. It was once remarked that

the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can

be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Advocates for Animals commends this Manifesto to the

politicians of Scotland.”

 

 

 

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